Hâce Nevfidan Başkadınefendi ve Muhallefâtı
The Hâce (The Woman Pilgrimm) Nevfidan Başkadınefendi (The First Wife of The Sultan) and Her İnheritance

Summary/Abstract: Through Ottoman archive documents, firstly Valide Sultans and secondly other palace women became a matter of some researches. With the help of these studies, correct and some unknown information was obtained about that the lives of Ottoman women which member of an elite class. Besides to, these researches contain details about the social, cultural, and economic life of the Ottoman Empire. At the transferred documents from Topkapı Palace to Ottoman Archive Foundation, there are some documents and books (heritage account and other books) which contain information of the Hâce Nevfidan Başkadınefendi who the wife of Sultan Mahmud and owner of the first wife rank (The Başkadınefendi) between he’s wives. İn this article with archive documents and other resources, the life, charity works, and heritage of the Hace Nevfidan Başkadınefendi studied and examined. Thus, moving from the pattern of an Ottoman dynasty member, making contribute aimed to the researches which about Ottoman social, cultural, and economic life.

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